Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life

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Cambridge University Press, 16 dic 2004 - 676 páginas
Jean-Michel Nectoux's important biography of Gabriel Fauré is the most comprehensive study yet of this central figure of fin de siecle France. It traces the composer's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked: the world also of Saint-Saens, Flaubert, Verlaine, Ravel, Debussy and Proust. A large part of the book considers Fauré's music, with particular emphasis on his adjustment to the musical language of the twentieth century and the formation of his late style. Works in all genres are discussed in detail. The book is the fruit of over twenty years' research by Nectoux, the foremost authority on Gabriel Fauré. In the process of writing this definitive study, he read more than 5000 previously unpublished letters and unearthed more than 120 musical manuscripts. The book includes several rare photographs from Fauré's lifetime and contains an extended chronology of the composer's life, a complete chronological listing of all his own works and a detailed bibliography.
 

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Gradus ad Parnassum I
1
Scenes from provincial life
12
Friends and lovers
23
En blanc et noir
41
from the romance to the mélodie
64
chamber music I
79
Choral music
105
operatic projects and incidental music
135
the van Lerberghe years
347
Pour le piano
379
chamber music II
402
modern style
424
Ultima verba
449
Inner voices
481
Coda
495
Chronology
501

song cycles and further operatic projects
169
Prométhée
192
Works and days
223
Pomp and circumstance
263
Towards the twentieth century
292
Pénélope Masques et bergamasques
313
Chronological catalogue of Faurés works
525
Notes
559
Bibliography
593
Discography
623
Index of works by Gabriel Fauré
641
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